How To Find Software Alternative With The Help Of Google

by Himanshu on December 31, 2009 · 16 comments

If you are a user of  any software and you are not satisfoed with the performance of that particular software  and you want an alternative of that software then Google is the best place to search for alternative software. You can take an advantage of Google suggestion feature which is quiet useful to find important software.

software-alternative

As you see in image given above, there are lots of alternatives of Snagit software. Example. Camtasia, Jing, Fraps, Hypersnap etc.

How to find alternative products

It is very simple to find alternative software products. Just write the name of software in Google search box followed by “vs”  and you will see lots of suggestion from Google. This is very tricky method to find good products as Google generally suggest trusted products.

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As you see in the image above that Google display all the nearby  competitor hosting providers while typing “hostgator vs” on Google search box. This is a cool method to find any alternative of any product.

Have a try and share your experience with readers of blog. Do you know any other cool method to take advantage of Google suggestion feature. Share your views on comment section.

via Lifehacker

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1 Pascal December 31, 2009 at 9:48 am

Lifehackers nice hack.

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2 Arijit December 31, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Good tricks to search the Alternate Software over Google search!!
.-= Arijit´s last blog ..An Ancient meteor impact crater was found with Google Earth! =-.

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3 Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats December 31, 2009 at 3:29 pm

lolz this seems to simple solution to find the new software..
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4 Vaibhav - Programming Kid December 31, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Thats a pretty neat trick. I come across this so often but never thought of it this way. Great Tip.
.-= Vaibhav – Programming Kid´s last blog ..Automatically tweet favourite feeds from Google Reader =-.

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5 nishmu December 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm

Nice tip.

To get alternative softwares, especially open source counterparts of commercial softwares , http://www.osalt.com/ is a good place to find them.

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6 Static | ahnternet December 31, 2009 at 7:13 pm

I’ll have to change my mind that Google’s suggestions are pretty useless. This is definitely a neat trick and while I’m not sure when I would use it (off the top of my head), I’m pretty sure it’ll come out to be useful from time to time. :)
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7 Arafat Hossain Piyada December 31, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Nice tips..however I read this in LifeHacker before but I have to thank you for sharing it with us.
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8 Hackingtrick.com January 4, 2010 at 9:54 am

Thats a really good trick to use google search.Thanks for share..
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9 Rohit Sane January 10, 2010 at 4:57 pm

Cool tip Himanshu! Google has really done good by introducing suggestions for the Search keywords as we type.
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